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(Continued from Page 1) project was also awarded a $602,000 grant from EPA coordinated by the SWCB for construction of a waste water treatment plant.
By 1979, the original proposal for a lagoon system to be located on land purchased from Clifford Miller readied the design phase. But construction costs had climbed to $800,000 over estimates, Wilson noted. With the' actual cost estimates near $1.4 million, the project was sent back to the drawing boards for restudy. Then this year, the state had $11 million in EPA funds for sewer treatment facilities resdnded by the federal government. As a result of the cut, the SWCB went back through its list of projects and opted to defer funding on those projects not expected to be ready to proceed with construction this year, according to Wilson. Since Sperryvilie’s facility was in the restudy stage and since the previously allocated $602,000 wasn’t going to be enough to fond the federal share of the project, that community’s sewage treatment plant was one of 11 community projects deferred by the SWCB, Wilson said.
Although all previously allocated grant fonds have now been either rescinded or deferred, Wilson noted that Sperryville’s ranking as number 5.out of 181 applicants gave the community a good shot at securing EPA construction money once fonds are available. "The high ranking is based primarily on the health hazard that’s been recognized by the health department since 1975,” he said.
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